We had a wonderful vacation over Thanksgiving. We rented a car and spent 10 days touring the Peloponnese. Ferry to Piraeus, taxi to Athens, rental car and then to the Corinth Canal, Isthmia, Epidavros, Napflio, Asini, Mycenea, Nimea, Kandilia, Olympia, Vasses, Stemnitsa, Dritsana, Nestor’s Palce (tried to, it’s closed), Pylos, Methone, Koroni, Messini, Kalamata, Mystras, Sparta, Athens, Athens Air Port, drop off the rental car, taxi to Pireaus , ferry to Souda arriving in the early morning, then Suzanna to work and Grier home and to retrieve the dog!
We saw ten museums, nine archeological sites, four castles, and one byzantine city. We bought 10 heavy books and some linens from a sweet nun that still lives at Mytras. It was olive harvest time so we saw hundreds of harvest scenes, olive oil press factories and trucks carrying bags and bags of olives to the mills, and donkeys carrying olive, branches.
We saw a lot but still saw very little of the Peloponnese. We plan to go back, maybe at the end of our time here.
I think we liked the Olympia museum the best, the Messini ruins, or Epidavros, or Mycenea or Olympia, or Vasse or Mystra the best. The towns of Pylos or Npflio the best, the scenery between Kalamata and Sparta the best, the entertaining dirving at Sparta the best, and the food in Sparta the best. But maybe best of all was the spectacular weather. It was beautiful.
We took a lot of pictures! I would have liked to take more. I pared them down to only 192 for the blog! I'll be posting them in the next 9 or 10 blog posts. Maybe one for each day of our trip.
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